Sentences with phrase «crackpot idea»

Sometimes this strategy is called insisting on «sound science» (that's the code - phrase), which means in practice: we will accept any random crackpot idea if it supports us, and if there is a strong scientific consensus that we don't like, «sound science» requires that we study it more until it becomes 100 % certain, or if necessary, even better: — RRB - before any decisions would be made, i.e., preferably never.

Meanwhile, Lysenko's crackpot ideas led to agricultural decline, crop failures, starvation, and finally the demise of the centrally planned Soviet economic system that perpetrated and perpetuated suffering for millions of people.

It took four tries before he could get an early version of the mathematical universe hypothesis published, and when the article finally appeared, an older colleague warned that his «crackpot ideas» could damage his reputation.

That brings us to the last level: the level IV multiverse intimately tied up with your mathematical universe, the «crackpot idea» you were once warned against.

Under Karlson's sharp direction, it becomes easy to forget that this heist for fun plot - line was a crackpot idea and highly unlikely to happen in real life.

He keeps his right eye in a near - permeant squint, and contorts the fingers of his hands when using them to add emphasis in convincing those around him to agree with his every crackpot idea.

During World War II, B.F. Skinner embarked on what he later called a «crackpot idea, born on the wrong side of the fence intellectually, but eventually vindicated in a sort of middle - class respectability».

This is an insult to the nation's children who will have to live with the consequences if the crackpot ideas are implemented.»

Perhaps it's a crackpot idea, but I'm going to float it anyway to see what you folks think.

And they also intuitively know that such «scientists» are nothing of the sort unless or until they have concrete data and experiments to prove their crackpot ideas.